If you click your heels together three times and say there's no place like home, and that gets you across the universe, that's fantasy. If you click your heels together three times, and the spark that results touches a vulnerable spot in the space-time continuum that causes a wormhole to open, and you travel across the universe that way, that's science fiction.
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Sunday, January 15, 2017
The Difference Between Fantasy and Science Fiction
If you click your heels together three times and say there's no place like home, and that gets you across the universe, that's fantasy. If you click your heels together three times, and the spark that results touches a vulnerable spot in the space-time continuum that causes a wormhole to open, and you travel across the universe that way, that's science fiction.
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